Ndiviwe Mphothulo, a medical doctor and president of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society, is trying to make sure the Trump administration’s funding cuts don’t collapse South Africa’s HIV programmes
You might think of snakebite as a niche issue rather than a devastating one. But it is thought to kill somewhere between 80,000 and 140,000 people a year.
In sub-Saharan Africa, patients face a ‘wild west’ where treatments for snake bites cost the Earth or don’t work
‘Nnomakhayas’ understand a community’s values, practices and problems, as well as modern medicine, making them effective carers
Doctors take a ‘leave of purpose’ from their normal jobs to experience a stint at the Tshemba Foundation that will change their patients’ lives, as well as theirs